The early '60s Strat Sound

Staggered for Left or Right handed players

A vintage staggered Stratocaster pickup with the classic Strat tone. Snappy highs with a woody mid-range and bright bass. Scatter wound with wax potted coils and staggered Alnico 5 magnets. Medium output. Vintage style cloth covered lead wire. A great Stratocaster pickup.

The Middle Pickup can be RW/RP for hum cancelling in positions 2 & 4.

You can buy a calibrated Bridge & Neck set of my Handwound Classic '64 Stratocaster Pickups here

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The late '60s Strat Sound

Staggered for Left or Right handed players

A vintage staggered or flat pole Stratocaster pickup with the classic bright Strat tone of the late 60s - tight, snappy with clean highs, a solid bass response with a hollow, woody mid-range. Scatter wound with wax potted coils and staggered Alnico 5 magnets. Medium output. Vintage style cloth covered lead wire.

A great pickup to play clean or funk - the tone can be rounded out a little by selecting flat stagger magnets. 

The Middle Pickup can be RW/RP for hum cancelling in positions 2 & 4.

You can buy a calibrated Bridge & Neck set of my Handwound Classic '69 Stratocaster Pickups here

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A Warmer, slightly higher output Strat Pickup

A flat-pole hotter-wound Stratocaster pickup for a fatter twist on the classic Strat tone. Still with snappy highs, a fatter mid-range with rounded bass. Scatter wound with wax potted coils and flat Alnico 2 magnets. Higher output. Vintage style cloth covered lead wire.

A great Stratocaster pickup if you want to balance the early '60s strat tone with a more blusier feel.

The Bridge pickup has individual copper baseplates under each pole to slightly shift the resonances toward the lows which combined with the hotter wind, helps to create a warmer bridge tone.

The Middle Strat Pickup can be RWRP for hum cancelling  in positions 2 & 4. 

You can buy a calibrated Bridge & Neck set of my Handwound Extra Width Strat Pickups here

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A Warmer, more Blusier Strat Sound

Staggered for Left or Right handed players

A higher output vintage Strat pickup set with a combination of Alnico 3 & 5 magnets custom staggered to suit your neck radius. Still with great clarity & definition, the classic Strat pickup tones are boosted by the higher output and rounded with the custom staggered poles. A warmer bridge pickup due to the overwind & custom Alnico 3 magnets really takes you into crunchy blues territory, great for breaking up an amp. Match this with the slightly hotter-than-normal middle & neck pickups gives you a sweet set great for that '70s blues rock voice.

Scatter wound with wax potted coils and custom staggered Alnico 3 & 5 magnets. Medium output. Vintage grey bottom flatwork. Vintage style cloth covered lead wire. A great Stratocaster bridge pickup.

The Middle Pickup can be RW/RP for hum cancelling in positions 2 & 4.

NOTE: I can also custom wind you a pickup or set with higher or lower outputs, just get in touch.

You can buy a calibrated Bridge & Neck set of my Handwound Sweet '74 Strat Pickups here

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Rich Strat Tones

With handwound coils pressed around the custom magnets and wax potted in a combination of paraffin & beeswax, my new Creamery Sonic '60 Strat replacement pickups give that richer, musical sound synonimous with the old classic Burns Tri-Sonic® design.

Geometry dictates they won't sound identical to the old 60s classics as the pickups are smaller (standard Strat size) and I use my custom made thinner magnets inside the pressed coil, but they do have the richer tone you'd expect.

Strat Sized - Designed to fit a standard Strat guitar with no modifications needed

Unlike the larger originals, my Sonic '60 pickups have been designed to fit a standard scratchplate & body cavity but with outputs of 7k, 6.6k & 6.3k respectively - created to balance the old vintage sounds with a modern spin they have a richer, warmer, more rounded, musical tone than a standard Strat pickup set.

With a choice of magnets, you can choose to have a warmer or brighter version. Alnico 2 'holds' the strings a little less, allowing them to vibrate a little more freely giving a perceived slightly warmer, more resonant tone.

Ceramic, being stronger, holds the strings a little more giving a slightly more attacking, slightly brighter tone.

Alnico 5 offers a slightly brighter tone than Alnico 2 but a little more rounded than the ceramic option.

You can buy a calibrated Bridge, Middle & Neck set of my Handwound Sonic '60 Strat Pickups here

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A Fatter, Warmer, Grittier Strat Sound

Staggered for Left or Right handed players

With its six adjustable pole pieces and dual magnet design, the new Stratocaster Sized P90 pickup is great if you're after that fat single coil P90 tone. Due to its design of dual bar magnets and pole screws, the tone is warmer & fatter than a standard Strat pickup. In positions 2 & 4 you'll stil get the trademark Strat 'quack' tone, just a fatter, more rounded version. Great for a more blusier style of playing.

As the geometry of the Strat P90 pickup differs from a standard P90 in terms of width of coil, the tone will be a little brighter but still with the warmth and fatter single coil voice you'd expect from a P90 design. I've designed the P90 Strat pickup with custom magnets to let the strings vibrate a little more adding to the warmth in the tone.The adjustable poles allow you to match the your neck radius for better string balance.

I've custom designed the bobbins so the pickups will fit standard Stratocaster pickup covers and the Middle Strat P90 Pickup can be RWRP for hum cancelling in positions 2 & 4. 

NOTE: I can also custom wind you a pickup or set with higher or lower outputs, just get in touch.

You can buy a calibrated Bridge & Neck set of my Handwound Strat-90 Pickups here

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A brighter, attacking late '70s inspired set

Can be staggered for Left or Right handed players

Inspired by the New Wave/Post Punk era of the late '70s & early '80s, the Red '79 Stratocaster Pickup has that brittle, bright attack associated with much of the music of that era. The lower in output, 42AWG coil wrapped around Custom Alnico 5 magnets gives you that cutting tone great with effects (a little phase, a little chorus ;-). As with the Telecaster Red '79s, I settled on the final designs (after many versions) to create a pickup that has that bright, brittle tone without the ice-pick shrillness of thin, lower wound pickups. To achieve this the coil is wound slightly shorter with a looser scatterwound pattern to achieve the balance I was looking for.

With the staggered magnet the tone is concentrated more around the D & G strings for a spikier attack whereas with the flat pole version the tone is rounded a little more as the tone is spread evenly through all strings.

NOTE: If Red really isn't your thing you can always order it in White or Black vintage String as well (or standard Strat covers) ;-)

The Middle Pickup can be RW/RP for hum cancelling in positions 2 & 4.

You can buy a calibrated Bridge & Neck set of my Handwound Strat-90 Pickups here

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